Show:
Origins of the Cold War
Origins of the Cold War
The Cold War Heats Up
Kennedy and the Cold War
Kennedy and the Cold War
100
This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
Satellite Nations
100
This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
Marshall Plan
100
During the Chinese Civil War, who was forced to retreat to Taiwan?
The Chinese Nationalists
100
He accepted Soviet aid for Cuba.
Fidel Castro
100
This barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
Limited Test Ban Treaty
200
This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.
Berlin Airlift
200
This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II.
Cold War
200
The 38th Parallel became an important dividing line between which two nations?
North Korea and South Korea
200
This involved the invasion of Cuba by American forces.
Bay of Pigs
200
This military strategy was adopted during the Kennedy presidency.
Flexible Response
300
Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II.
United Nations
300
He believed that the best way to avoid a third world war was to create a new order in which all nations had the right to self-determination.
Harry S. Truman
300
Which country came to the rescue of North Korea during the Korean War?
China
300
He lost the 1960 presidential election. This was the first televised election in U.S. history.
Richard M. Nixon
300
This was a direct communication link set up during Kennedy's presidency.
Hot Line
400
He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece.
Harry S. Truman
400
This was the creation of an alliance system of communist states, in order to counter the NATO threat:
Warsaw Pact
400
________________ was the leader of the Communists in China.
Mao Zedong
400
This separated East Germany from West Germany.
The Berlin Wall
400
His religious beliefs were an important issue of the 1960 presidential campaign.
John F. Kennedy
500
This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime.
NATO
500
This was created to protect the idea in which all nations had the right to self-determination.
Truman Doctrine
500
General Douglas MacArthur argued that _________ should be used on Chinese cities.
Atomic Weapons
500
He squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin crisis.
Nikita Khrushchev
500
This crisis occurred when U.S. planes detected Soviet Missiles on the island of Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis